Department of English, University of Calgary

08/16/2023

Applications for ENGL 520: Community Engagement Through Literature, are still being accepted for Fall 2023 and Winter 2024 terms.

This unique course combines classroom and community-based learning in collaboration with the Calgary Public Library, “Creative Writing Club” for school-aged children. Contact [email protected] to apply!

07/20/2023

FALL 2023 CREATIVE WRITING COURSE

ENGL 436.01 Popular Genre Writing (TR 12:30-13:45)
Poetry: Short Forms, with Dr. Anna Veprinska

This course aims to inspire, develop, and refine your own poetic voice alongside your peers. In particular, we will focus on writing and reading a range of short form poetry from historical forms like the haiku and the sonnet to contemporary forms like the visual poem and the Instagram poem. Our course places special emphasis on contemporary poets as a way of understanding where your voice fits in the poetic conversations taking place today. We will closely and critically read short form poems by published poets, compose our own poems, workshop our poems, and revise our poems based on feedback. Part of our course will include attending a poetry reading.

07/20/2023

Are you looking for a course to add to your Fall 2023 schedule?

ENGL 517 Advanced Topics: Theoretical and Cultural Studies
Postcolonial Studies with Dr. Clara A.B. Joseph (MW 15:30-16:45)

Immerse yourself in a transformative exploration of colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial theories alongside the captivating voices of literary and cultural texts. Join us for a ground-breaking journey where narratives boldly challenge and “talk back” to prevailing ideologies!

04/11/2023

Your gift supports the art and science of making books by hand. https://youtu.be/e85V-Ld6z0w

The Faculty of Arts' new Book Arts Lab informs our understanding of early printed texts and helps us to re-imagine the book in the 21st century. Be a part of the experience by making your gift today: https://givingday2023.ucalgary.ca/o/university-of-calgary/i/giving-day-2023/s/department-of-english-book-arts-lab-fund

03/27/2023

TIA House presents the Launch of Larissa Lai’s The Lost Century

With special guests Mikka Jacobsen and Joshua Whitehead

Hosted by Rebecca Geleyn

More information on the event: https://events.ucalgary.ca/arts/english/event/433238-tia-house-presents-the-launch-of-larissa-lais-the

03/27/2023

As TIA House wraps up its final year, we invite you to join us for a discussion of the project’s impact on our community. TIA House, run by Dr. Larissa Lai, has been dedicated to exploring the interactions of social justice, futurity, and innovative aesthetics in creative writing. For the past three years, the project’s graduate students have produced a podcast series, TIA House Talks, interviewing some of Canada’s most innovative writers.

Dr. Larissa Lai will offer reflections on the project and graduate students will discuss memorable interviews. Come celebrate nine years of creative writing community building at TIA House!

More information on the event: https://events.ucalgary.ca/arts/english/event/433240-tia-house-talks-a-celebration-of-9-years-at-the

03/09/2023

Shirley Anne Tate, Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, will give a talk titled, “White feminist supremacy: The impossibility of Black feminist allyship” via Zoom on March 17 from 10.30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The online event is hosted by the Research Committee, the Department of English, University of Calgary.
https://events.ucalgary.ca/arts/english/event/432165-white-feminist-supremacy-the-impossibility-of

02/28/2023

U of C students, faculty, and community are invited to join us for a talk by Jael Richardson, acclaimed author and founder of The Fold for the 2023 Paget/Hoy Speakers Series, hosted by Shazia Hafiz Ramji at ST 143 on March 1 at 10 a.m.
https://events.ucalgary.ca/arts/english/event/430647-pagethoy-speaker-series-master-class

Please join us for a talk by Jael Richardson hosted by Dr. Kit Dobson at the Nickle Galleries Gallery Hall on March 1 at 7:30 p.m.
https://events.ucalgary.ca/arts/english/event/428903-pagethoy-speaker-series-beyond-diversity-practical

11/08/2022

The Department of English Suzette Mayr’s sixth novel wins prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Congratulations!

11/08/2022

Congratulations Suzette!!

Suzette Mayr is the Winner of the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize November 7, 2022 November 7, 2022 (Toronto, Ontario) – Suzette Mayr has been named the winner of the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel, The Sleeping Car Porter,

10/31/2022

Amy LeBlanc is researching the literary haunted house as a metaphor for disability and disease in the body

10/27/2022

Department of English, University of Calgary's Creative Writing Professor Suzette Mayr's sixth novel shortlisted for prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize. Read more to learn about the intensively researched origins of The Sleeping Car Porter:
http://ow.ly/jSuM50Ln8IN